Maria Thereza Alves

 
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Recipes for Survival
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Seeing you
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Texts about Alves

Eine Welt, in die viele Welten passen. Text by Iván DaríoVargas Roncancio. Published in: ARCH+, Zeitschrift für Architektur und Urbanismus, Issue 250: The Great Repair – Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft,

December 2022.

Book Review: Maria Thereza Alves, "Recipes for Survival".

Text by Nicola Gray, in: Third Text, Online Book Reviews, August 2020.

Borderless Histories. The Botanical Art of Maria Thereza Alves.

Text by Richard W. Hill, in: Third Text, Vol. 32, No. 2-3, 2018.

Secret Gardens. On Maria Thereza Alves’s Seeds of Change.

in: Artforum International, Vol. 56, No. 10, Summer Issue 2018.

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Artist Maria Thereza Alves Is Charting the History of Migration in NYC Using Seeds.

in: The Observer New York, N.Y., November 7, 2017

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¡Ya basta! Ecologies of Art and Revolution in Mexico.

in: Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology. Berlin 2016

“Wake” De Maria Thereza Alves: Palabra Y Proceso Vegetal, Saberes En Expansión.

in: Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo, Vol. 3, Nr. 1. Barcelona 2015

Maria Thereza Alves: “Ya solo preocupa producir a gran escala”.

in: El País. Madrid February 14, 2015

Maria Thereza Alves: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC).

in: Artforum. New York 2015

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Maria Thereza Alves: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville.

in: Frieze No. 170. London 2015

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El regreso de un Lago: Arte Contemporánea Ecología Política en México.

in: Rufián Revista, No. 17. Santiago de Chile January 2014

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The Lake that disappears, the Lake that emerges: "The Return of the Lake" by Maria Thereza Alves.

in: A*Desk. September, 2013

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The Return of a Lake. Maria Thereza Alves at dOCUMENTA 13, 2012. Exhibition Review.

in: Public: Art, Culture, Ideas. No. 47. Toronto 2013

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Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology.

in: Third Text. Vol. 27, Issue1. London 2013

The importance of words and actions.

in: Maria Thereza Alves. Nantes 2013

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Stubborn Waste.

in: Maria Thereza Alves. Nantes 2013

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Iracema (de Questembert).

in: Maria Thereza Alves. Nantes 2013

They want it.

in: Maria Thereza Alves. Nantes 2013

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"Una Documenta más…".

in: Reforma. Mexico City June 20, 2012

The Museum of European Normality. Contemporary Art and the Visual Construction of European Identity.

in: Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernities and Museum Practices. Milano 2012

Space is a Doubt. Coltivare Nuove Relazioni: Maria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change e Wake.

in: Roots§Routes, Research on Visual Cultures (online) Rome and Milano 2011

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The Ecosophy of Maria Thereza Alves.

Paris 2009 (press release)

Migration's Silent Witnesses.

in: Plot: confluens three. London 2008

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→ Fisher published a similiar version of this text in 2009 in the catalogue "Going Public '08. PortCitySafari" (Milano 2009) titled Maria Thereza Alves - Seeds of Change: Marseille Migrations's Silent Witnesses.

Beetroot Baroque. Vegetables from Germany – It's a Matter of Taste / Runkelrübenbarock. Gemüse aus Deutschland – Da kommt Geschmack auf den Tisch.

in: Maria Thereza Alves. What is the Color of a German Rose? / Welche Farbe hat die deutsche Rose? Gera 2007

The Whole Truth.

in: Frieze No. 108. London 2007

The Artist And Where She's At. Reflections on "What is the Color of A German Rose?" and Other Videos by Maria Thereza Alves.

in: Wherever We Go. Art, Identity, Cultures in Transit / Ovunque andiamo. Arte, Identità, Culture in Transito. Milano 2006

Thing-Process.

in: Thing-Process. Zagreb 2003

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Lines Converging: the urgent ethnography of Maria Thereza Alves' "Brazilian Recipes".

Ottawa, Ontario 2000 (unpublished typoscript)

Sensing the Zinneke.

in: Minus One Dimension: Zinneke Reflections. A project by Maria Thereza Alves. Brussels 1997

A Texture of Wounds.

in: Minus One Dimension: Zinneke Reflections. A project by Maria Thereza Alves. Brussels 1997

Nowhere.

in: Nowhere. London 1993

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Meten a regios en su travesía.

in: El Norte. Monterrey October 6, 1992

Una muestra de arte ocupará las calles y plazas del centro durante un mes.

in: El País. Madrid April 19, 1992

Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham.

in: Ante América. Regarding America. Bogotá 1992

El arte a través de su proprio cuerpo, propósito vivencial de Ma. Teresa Alves.

in: El Nacional del Sur. Mexico City August 3, 1989

Hay tantos ecologistas que su lucha hay devino en utopia.

in: La Jornada. Mexico City March 3, 1991

No Tan Roja

in: El Financeiro. Mexico City September 9, 1991

Chico Mendes. Los Anti-Heroes Y La Ley De Gravedad.

in: Maria Thereza Alves. Chico Mendes. Mexico City, MX 1991

Muchas Nueces, Pouco Ruido/ III y última.

in: UnoMásUno Mexico City January 12, 1991

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Post Eldorado Amazonas.

in: El Universal. Mexico City March 5, 1991

Chico Méndes, los antihéroes y la ley de gravedad.

in: El Universal. Mexico City September 12, 1991

Guia Plastica / Alves en el Amazonas.

in: El Nacional. Mexico City March 7, 1991

Chico Mendes No Es Propiedad Intellectual.

in: Excelsior. Mexico City September 12, 1991

La continua búsqueda por la `Utopía`.

in: Maria Thereza Alves. Instalaciones y Fotografías. Mexico City 1991

Maria Thereza Alves.

in: Maria Thereza Alves. Instalaciones y Fotografías. Mexico City 1991

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No soy su madre.

in: UnoMásUno Mexico City 1990

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Maria Theresa Alves y su busquada autodenunciada.

in: Opcion de Morelos. Cuernavaca July 8, 1989

Fotografia refleja una realidad.

in: a.b.c. Cuernavaca July 8, 1989

Where Politics Meets Creativity.

in: The New York Times N.Y. October 20, 1985